Noah Pragin

Around 2012, I stumbled upon Codecademy and discovered the magic of programming. Starting with basic scripting and game development, I explored web technologies before discovering my passion for software grounded in hardware experiences. Since then, I've engineered UAVs for agriculture, autonomous racecars, and cloud solutions for enterprises.

Today, I am committed to preparing a racecar for competition with Global Formula Racing and maintaining a 4.0 GPA since returning to Oregon State University. I champion a pragmatic, tool-agnostic approach and am excited to leverage my skills — and a commitment to lifelong learning — to explore new technology and industries.

In my free time, I develop algorithms leveraging public data to create fun visualizations like color matching Pokémon to sports teams. Offline, you can find me cooking international food, building a LEGO, watching a movie, hanging out with my cat, and tending to my Animal Crossing island.

Jun - Sep 2025

Software Engineer, Intern • Anduril Industries

I architected safety-critical behavior trees for UAV autonomy from the ground up, contributing foundational mission behaviors and fail-safe systems. I implemented embedded Rust middleware to enable seamless communication between autonomy and autopilot systems, and developed a high-performance state management system meeting strict real-time constraints for coordinate transformations and synchronized data fetching.

PythonRustBehavior TreesEmbedded Software

Sep 2024 - Present

Undergraduate Research Assistant • CoRIS Institute

I work with faculty and grad students on an autonomous agricultural robot that navigates orchards, picks apples, and prunes branches. I've tuned Kalman filters to boost apple localization accuracy and improved reinforcement learning sim2real with better synthetic orchard data using Blender. Seperately, I've implemented neural networks for point clouds as a preprocessing step for RL training and contrasted their effects on real-to-sim transfer performance for robotic pick-and-place tasks.

ROSBlenderGymnasiumDNNsFranka Panda

Jun - Sep 2024

Software Engineer, Intern • SiFly Aviation

At this UAV startup, I contributed to SiFly's world record 3+ hour electric drone flight by delivering software across the full stack. I built a cloud-based fleet management platform, enabled ML analytics on telemetry, improved network performance for mission-critical data flow, enhanced WebRTC security, and rapidly developed RESTful APIs. Through proactive teamwork, I helped meet aggressive Alpha launch deadlines.

Embedded SoftwareDjangoWebRTCPostgreSQLMQTTReact